Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-22
AN INSULT TO TEXAGs
Colonel Leader YindIcates the People Of
His Adop5ed state.

Philadelphia Tines.
To the Editor of the Times
ave don't suppose many intelligent
P.ohibitionists expected to carry the state.
The bare idea Of Texas going prohibition
is enough to raise g smile, and il may te
noted here as significant that while il
seems ridiculous to expect the most Hit
crate and least civilized state ii the Union
10 vote for prohibition, there is nothing
inc0neruous in the idea Of 8 state ike
Massachusetts doing 500
| clip the above from The editorial col
umns Of this mornings North American.
AS resident Of TeNgs for the past four
teen years, l cannot permit this Insult 10
that great state aud It's good people 70
pass uarebuked. By Whist autnor:ty, I
should like 10 know. does this scribOler
cnsracteriZC the state OF Texas % being
"the most iI.terate and least civilized
state in the Union?" He certainly
shows 8 dep,Crable state Of igaOr-
ance IA doing SO. | venture the asser-
ton that, leaving the negro out, there Is
as much intelligence enc civilization in
! Texas as there is il Pennsylvania I risk
nothing in asserting Thai LLere is not g
/ city in Texas where there il more crime
committed than there is in any city in
/ Pennsylvania Of the same population. l
! know of ny own knowledge that crimes
/ have been commit ed here in the coed CITY
/ Of Philadelphia, in my own cay, far more
GtrOCi0us tR1u %ly committed III Texas.
! Comparisons 8le OdioUs and l would
suggest to my Republican newspaper
/ friends IL the north TO be e little careful
| how they make them with the sou.h. If
| prohibition Eas been defeated IN TeNas BY
! so 600 majority, which | doubt, the I'M
InapSe vote which the measure received
| is unGnswerable testimony 20 The liberal
! ity, intelligence and morality Of the reC-
| ole Of thst great STATE. Admlttipg the
correctness Of the returns The prohibi-
! ton amendment, hGd il been LETT 10 the
/ white people alone, would hGvG carried ty
! an Overwhelming ma Ority. The Demo
cratic majority in Texas LAST November
Was 10000. Now, with the almost
solid opposition Of TIRE Republicans, pro
/ hiDitiOn is defeated by about $4,000 me-
! jCritY, which shows that great MAORI
! " Of the Democrats favored the meas
/ ure. l hazard nothing il saying tbar
/ prohibition received, in comparison with
The population, g larger vote in Demo
| cratic Texas than the same measure
Will receive in Republican Pennsylvania
If the North American and Kim
dred Republican sheets IN PenrsYl-
vsnia will cease waving the bloody shirt,
stop slandeTing and Ij5eliDg the south
and keeping alive the flames Of sectional
hste, ard turn their attention 10 the pUri-
| ficatlOn and redemption Ci their party
from ring and "boss" rule, they will be
doing Republication enQ the country
much more coed. In no state in the
south could a few aci-coustituted
'leGders"in the Democratic party dictate
who the candidate Of the party should
&c. Pennsylvania Republicans will find
quite enough to do to look after their Own
state. When such outrage5 as have been
perpetrated in the mining districts OF
Pennsylvania, which, for 52rbarity, are
only equaled in poor, own-tTodden Ire
land, snail be put stop to, it will be
time enough for Republican papers in this
state TO talh of the want of civiiiza-
ton in other states. | am q Penn
sylvanian by birth and resided
mere, most OF the time in this city,
until l was forty ye6rs CT age. l have
been Republican since 1860, the last
fourteen years ia Texas. where it costs
something TO be one know Texas, and
while there are some bad people there, as
there are in every state, the great mass
Of Ter white inhabitants are as brave and
cnivalruus, as homes and wotthy, 2s re-
fined a1d Intelligent, IS can be found in
any state IN the Union.
". Y. LEADER.
Philadelphia, August q, 1887.